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Visibility Matters: Rendering Human Origins and Diversity in Space and Time
Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesDepartment of Cultural and Science Studies
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
25. – 27. APRIL, 2013THE UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE, FROHBURGSTRASSE 3, LUCERNE
Organisers: Marianne Sommer (Lucerne), Susanne Bauer (Frankfurt), Veronika Lipphardt (Berlin), Staffan Müller-Wille (Exeter), Sandra Widmer (Berlin)
Conference Schedule: Thursday, April 25, University of Lucerne, Frohburgstr. 3, 3rd floor, Room 3.B58
15.00–15.30 Introduction
SESSION I: DIAGRAMS
Chair: Michael Hagner (ETH Zurich) 15.30–16.15 Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter, MPIWG) Franz Boas and the Visualization of Anthropometric Data, 1891–1911
16.15–17.00 Diliara Valeeva (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) From Photographs to Diagrams: Images of Madness in Soviet
Psychiatry
17.00–17.30 Break
17.30–18.15 Amir Teicher (Tel-Aviv University) The Individual, the Family, the Volk: Integrity and Diversity in
Pedigree Charts
18.15–19.00 Susanne Bauer (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main) Virtual Geographies: The Politics of Spatial Modeling in Soviet Genogeography
Friday, April 26, University of Lucerne, Frohburgstr. 3, 3rd floor, Room 3.B47
SESSION II: COLLECTING AND RECONSTRUCTING
Chair: Veronika Lipphardt (MPIWG) 09.00–09.45 Pierre-Louis Blanchard (University of Lucerne) Putting Skulls on Paper: The Cranial Curves of Fritz and Paul Sarasin
09.45–10.30 Mari-Tere Alvarez (University of Southern California) Ben Garcia (University of California, Berkeley) Art Objects, Stolen Bodies, Ever-changing Borders: Display,
Restitution and Patrimony
10.30–11.00 Break
11.00–11.45 Oliver Hochadel (University of Barcelona, University of Lucerne) Paleoartists. Sculpting and Drawing Human Origins 11.45–13.30 Lunch
SESSION III: PERFORMANCE AND CIRCULATION
Chair: Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter, MPIWG)13.30–14.15 Maddalena Cataldi (EHESS, Paris) Scientific Imaging in the Vulgarization of an Anthropological Theory
during the World Fair of Paris, 1878
14.15–15.00 Chris Manias (University of Manchester) Human Evolution in the Illustrated London News, 1890–1960
15.00–15.30 Break
15.30–16.15 Jenny Bangham (Cambridge University, MPIWG) ‘Race and Colour: A Scientific Introduction to the Problem of Race
Relations’: Representing race on television in early 1950s Britain
16.15–17.00 Veronika Lipphardt (MPIWG) Visualizations of Human Variation in Early Population Genetics
17.00–17.30 Break
17.30–18.15 Marianne Sommer (University of Lucerne) DNA as Umbilical Cord: Exhibiting the Great History of Human Diversity
Saturday, April 27, University of Lucerne, Frohburgstr. 3, 3rd floor, Room 3.B47
SESSION IV: TEMPORALITIES
Chair: Susanne Bauer (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main)09.15-10.00 Crispin Barker (University of Lucerne, University of California,
Berkeley) Standardizing Senescence: Charting and Imagining the
American Lifespan from the Cradle to the Grave
10.00-10.45 Elaine Gan (University of California, Santa Cruz) Mapping Multispecies Temporalities
10.45-11.15 Break
11.15-12.00 Liv Hausken (University of Oslo) Imaging Biometrics: Biometrics Today and in the 19th Century 12.00-13.30 Lunch
SESSION V: SERIALITY AND DIGITALITY
Chair: Marianne Sommer (University of Lucerne)13.30-14.15 Dehlia Hannah (Columbia University, New York) Ancestral Portraits: Portraiture, Identity, and Molecular Biology
14.15-15.00 Kathrin Friedrich (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne) ‘Machine- and Human-readable’: Diagrammatic Design in Synthetic
Biology
15.00-15.30 Break
15.30-16.15 Ana Gross (University of Warwick) Online Data: Marginal Details, Digital Evidence 16.15-17.00 Valentin Groebner (University of Lucerne) Input and Final Discussion
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